Painting on a Painting in Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2025-6
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project of the Studio Museum in Harlem, begun in 2002, that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality and creative production through the production of an image for a postcard. The resulting postcards were issued as a set in 2023. […]
The Disappointed Tourist
Chicago Architecture Center September 29, 2025 – April 19, 2026 The Chicago Archicture Center (CAC) announces a new exhibition, The Disappointed Tourist, comprising 316 paintings of beloved locations that no longer exist, by artist Ellen Harvey. The subjects immortalized in the paintings were supplied by members of the public who sent them to the artist […]
Winter in the Summer House, Olana, 2025-6
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NYOriginally commissioned for What’s Missing? Ellen Harvey & Gabriela SalazarJune 14 – November 2, 2025 Winter in the Summer House has been extended through Fall 2026 For What’s Missing?, The Olana Partnership commissioned artists Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar to create site-specific outdoor artworks that respond to missing pieces of Olana’s landscape history. I feel […]
The Dorset Pavilion
Biennale Spaces, Venice, ItalySeptember 3 – October 30, 2024 The Dorset Pavilion, an artist project that questions the idea that Venice Biennale pavilions should only be for countries and that celebrates and interrogates art’s connection to local community is on view from September 3rd – October 30th 2024, Tuesday–Sunday, 12.00–19:00, Biennale Spaces, Castello 96/95, Venezia […]
No Prior Art: Illustrations of Invention
The first iteration of The Utopia Machine consisting of 100 paintings based on library visitors’ ideas on how to make the world into a utopia is on view at the Getty Gallery in the Los Angeles Central Library for the exhibition No Prior Art: Illustrations of Invention, curated by Todd Lerew, as part of the […]
Nudist Museum in The Kaleidoscopic, The Bass, 2025-6
The Kaleidoscopic: Writing Histories through the Collection is curated by Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media Art Ellen Harvey’s Nudist Museum is presented as part of this new installation of The Bass’ permanent collection. “The Nudist Museum is a slightly mad homage to one of the main reasons I loved museums as a child […]
Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue, The Bass, 2024-5
Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue is curated by James Voorhies, The Bass Chief Curator, and Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media Art, with exhibition design by Sofía Dotta, Senior Exhibitions Manager. Ellen Harvey’s Nudist Museum in on view as part of the permanent collection. “The Nudist Museum is a slightly mad homage to one […]
Ellen Harvey: Missing You
Curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdansk, PolandJanuary 2 – March 26, 2023 Ellen Harvey is a British/American conceptual artist using a wide range of media. She creates oil paintings, drawings, installations, maps, and works in public spaces. In her work she often uses classical techniques to examine contemporary society, our attitude […]
UTOPIA MACHINE (2024- ongoing)
Utopia Machine is an ongoing project for which Ellen Harvey is painting people’s responses to the question “what would make this world into a utopia?” The paintings reference the drawings required to submit a patent with colors inverted, the white becoming black and the black, white. They include the texts that people submitted explaining their […]
The Disappointed Tourist, Butler Gallery, 2024
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IrelandApril 15 – May 28, 2023 Butler Gallery is delighted to present The Disappointed Tourist, a series of over two-hundred-and-sixty paintings by the UK born, NYC-based artist, Ellen Harvey, inspired by the desire to repair what has been destroyed. The places immortalized in the paintings were supplied by members of the public who […]
TWIN SAINTS (2025)
Two hand-painted maps of the two Saint Petersburgs (Russia and Florida) meet in the ocean where the twin gold leaf “haloes” kiss. Twin Saints, Ellen Harvey, 2025. Framed watercolor, acrylic & 23 carat gold leaf on Arches hot-rolled paper. Overall framed dimension: 48 7/16’’ x 132 3/8’’ (122.8 cm x 337.2 cm). Photograph: Ellen Harvey
TRASH TELEPORTATION (2023)
A project for Interpreting the History of Pollution, Art Prospect / TRASH 5, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a public art festival, curated by CEC ArtsLink, Tazar Kyrgyzstan & The Bishkek School of Contemporary Art. Both art and trash are products of humanity that can be said to be defined by their lack of usefulness. However, while art is loved and […]
MAX GOES FOR A WALK (2022)
A video in which a hand-painted Max Beckmann walks through his collection of postcards, occasionally changing outfits or morphing into different objects. The hummed song to which he walks is the well-known German nursery song Hänschen Klein (Little Hans, 1899, by Franz Widedemann) which tells of a boy who leaves his sorrowing mother to go […]
ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CAPTURING SUNSETS (2017-2021)
Collections of rear-illuminated dark mirrors hand-engraved to look like mobile phones and tablets in which someone is trying to capture a sunset. On the Impossibility of Capturing a Sunset (in Margate), Ellen Harvey, 2020. 65 Hand-engraved Plexiglas mirrors, Lumisheets, Plexiglas frames, electric cords, dimensions variable, here: 67 x 79” (1.7 x 2m). Photograph: Thierry Bal. […]
SELFIE-PANORAMA (2021)
In this contemporary reinterpretation of Sattler’s famous panorama of Salzburg, the views are partially hidden by a disintegrating selfie ghost and are then animated to create an easily shareable GIF. The paintings are based on photographs taken by Tina Teufel standing on the same tower that Sattler used as his vantage point. The city of […]
ALL THAT GLITTER (2021)
A corner installation with identical salon-style hangings of mirrors and gilded panels. The gold panels are installed over a wallpaper of palaces and wanna-be palaces and some of their inhabitants. All That Glitter, Ellen Harvey, 2020. Adhesive paper printout, 40 gilded Gessoboards, 30 Plexiglas mirrors, together: 10′ x 40″ (3 m x 1 m). Photographs: […]
MIRROR GROVE (2021)
A collaboration between Blane de St. Croix and Ellen Harvey. Inspired by the mangrove glades of the Everglades and Miami area, Sky Grove inserts marble mangrove trees and herons and their reflections into the terrazzo floor of the Jackson West Hospital entrance. The groves are mirrored so that as visitors cross the hospital threshold, they briefly step […]
TV ROCK GLACIER (2015)
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